About This Song

The Train That Carried My Girl From Town is a white country blues first recorded by West Virginia slide guitarist Frank Hutchison in September 1926. It's usually credited as traditional. Hutchison may have written it, or he may have learned it from Black musicians around him, and the song is full of floating blues lines. His record was released with the label title "Train That Carried the Girl From Town."

Doc Watson made it a regular part of his repertoire, and his versions are where most pickers learned it.

Billy Strings has kept it in his sets, often running it straight into Black Mountain Rag, and his live shows have introduced a new generation to it. He has also played it in his sit-down duo sets with Bryan Sutton, who has performed it on his own too.

Also recorded by Doc and Merle Watson.